Nominated for the 2019 Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize and the 2019 P2 Listeners’ Prize

St Petersburg 1881: The bones of a newly deceased wild horse is shipped all the way from Mongolia to the zoologist Michael. He has never seen anything like it and is stunned when he realizes that the skeleton in front of him resembles that of the prehistoric wild horse, a lineage thought to be long extinct. Mikhail starts dreaming of an expedition to the Mongolian plains.